#IHaveWonPennsylvania is trending, but did you know lots of #Welsh communities were complicit in #SettlerColonialism of Delaware, Susquehannock, Shawne, and Iroquois land of modern day #Pennsylvania?
"The Welsh Tract was a portion of Pennsylvania settled by Welsh-speaking Quakers. The original settlers, led by John Roberts, negotiated w/ William Penn in 1684 2 constitute the Tract as a separate county whose local government would use the Welsh lang."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Tract
The Barony was never formally created, but the many Welsh settlers gave their communities Welsh names that survive today. A more successful attempt at setting up a Gwladfa (Welsh-speaking colony) occurred two centuries later, in the Chubut Province of Patagonia, Argentina.
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